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This is a guest blog by Elisabeth Caesens, DRC Mining Governance Project Coordinator for the Carter Center. The views expressed here are her own and do not represent those of the Carter Center.

Africa’s oldest nature reserve, home to critically-endangered mountain
gorillas, risks “devastating consequences” if a British firm continues
its oil exploration there, conservationists have warned.
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By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi

By James Politi in Washington, Katrina Manson in Nairobi and Javier
Blas in London

(RAPAPORT) News Limited: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe used $900 million of diamond money to rig the country's elections, intelligence documents reveal. The documents, dated June 3, detail how Chinese and Zimbabwean diamond companies pumped cash into a war chest for Mugabe to manipulate poll results and intimidate the population.
Yesterday, Zimbabweans prepared for another five years of autocratic rule after the electoral commission announced that Mugabe had won the presidential poll with 61 percent of the vote.

By Michael J. Kavanagh
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) — Africa’s oldest national park, which
the Democratic Republic of Congo has opened up for oil
exploration, may generate $1.1 billion annually without crude
production, the World Wildlife Fund said.

Today has been marred by Congo coverage of its most confuse way. Time to wrap up things: Yesterday saw MONUSCO’s announcement of a security zone and the concomitant (possible) first deployment of the new Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) of UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 30 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency warned on Tuesday that recurrent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province is uprooting more civilians and exposing an increasing number of women, girls and men to rape.

British Member of Parliament Andrew Mitchell has advised African countries to address conflicts and ensure proper accountability as benchmarks for donor aid.

by Ben Shepherd, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme

As fighting once again flares between the Congolese military and the M23 rebel group, it may be that president Joseph Kabila is on the cusp of a high-stakes and potentially era-defining gamble.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been connected to the West Africa Cable System (WACS), providing the country's first link to a high‑capacity submarine fibre‑optic network.